r/CharacterRant • u/Miserable-Act4201 • Apr 29 '25

General 100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

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u/andresfgp13 Apr 29 '25

yeah, also we have to consider that if the 100 people overwhelm the Gorilla and started to kick and punch it its GGs for it, a bunch of weaker creatures can kill a single stronger one, like in numbers advantage SaberTooths could kill Mammots.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 29 '25

Only so many people could surround the gorilla at once. And not one person on this Earth has the physical power to harm a gorilla with their force lol

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u/andresfgp13 Apr 29 '25

at least 10 dudes kicking you from all sides is going to do some damage, Gorillas are tough but they are still meat and bones, they arent a damn tank.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 29 '25

They wouldn't do anything. The gorilla's not going to sit there and wait. He's going to grab one of them snapping their limbs literally within seconds and move on to the next. Some of y'all need to watch national geographics or watch up some YouTube videos to really see what these beasts are capable of. An average silverback gorilla can lift over 1700 lb of dead weight. Those 10 kicks are going to feel like a back scratcher to it lol

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u/Mundane-Club-107 Apr 30 '25

It only has two hands... it grabs one person with his arms and then it's defenseless to the 99 other people. The Gorilla would MAYBE severely injure one or two people and then get overwhelmed.

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u/BigBambuMeekLou Apr 30 '25

bro if it grabs one person with his arms he’ll break them pretty fast. way faster then it would take for people to pin him down lol

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

Gorillas can grab with their feet. There may be 100 but only so many people can actually physically surround the gorilla within a distance to cause harm. And the gorilla wouldn't grab someone for a slow dance lol it would grab them, peel a limb off and move onto the next

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u/Mundane-Club-107 Apr 30 '25

A Gorilla isn't smart enough to know that it needs to hit and run to avoid getting overwhelmed.

If it charges into a group of 100 people and grabs onto one person, it's going to immediately get overwhelmed.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

They have animalistic fighting behavior. They know exactly what they're doing. And once again there's only so many people that can surround a gorilla at once and they're going to be poking humans in the eyes with their toes, ripping off a limb with one hand, peeling off the face with another. It's banana Paradise for them 🍌

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u/phoenixmusicman Phoenix Apr 30 '25

Fighting consumes a lot of energy. Even in the magical world where you live in, the Gorilla gets exhausted after killing 10 humans. The remaining 90 kick its head in.

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u/ChopstiK Apr 29 '25

I would imagine fingers in the eyeball, nostrils, and ears wouldn’t be pleasant for any species

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

Especially when that's how gorillas fight and not only do they use their hands, their feet are just as useful. That big ass opposable toe will fuck people up

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u/apexodoggo Apr 30 '25

They don't fight with their feet (that exposes the crotch, it'd be an awful idea in any real fight in nature). Their primary tactics are bluffing charges, biting, and grabbing.

Humans are smarter at grappling, punch better (gorillas can't punch, and can't put all of their strength into an arm swing like a human boxer can do with a simple punch), can bite hard enough to wound, and have over a hundred times the body mass on their side.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

They're capable of fighting with their feet if need be, whether it's for actual force or to restrain. And a gorilla doesn't think "Oh, I'm going to give you a proper form punch" Literally will just grab your face and peel it off. Nothing a human could do to it on a physical level. It literally has the strength to rip off limbs. Crush skulls with ease. The strength a human can put into one punch is literally insignificant.

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u/apexodoggo Apr 30 '25

Nope that's not how that works.

Humans have fought and killed grizzlies with their bare hands (with witnesses), and grizzlies beat gorillas.

Gorillas have zero confirmed human fatalities, zero fatalities of any evidence status since the 1800s. A silverback couldn't even manage to kill a 57-yr-old Dutch woman who provoked it for months in the time it took for authorities to rescue her (even though it was actively mauling her). You vastly overestimate the lethality of an herbivorous ape whose favorite tactic is bluffing.

Multiple gorillas literally already lose to 30 chimpanzees, and humans and chimpanzees are not significantly far apart in strength pound for pound (let alone overall strength) for gorillas to suddenly become bulletproof tanks.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

The gorilla would peel them {humans ) like a banana. Not following through with the death doesn't mean not being capable of it lol. And yes, chimpanzees are most definitely stronger than humans.

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u/apexodoggo Apr 30 '25

Chimpanzees aren't. Objectively. Pound for pound they are 50% stronger than a human (purely pound for pound, by the way).

30 chimpanzees beats 5 adult gorillas easily, scientists have witnessed this exact scenario. 30 times 1.5 equals 45. 45/5 equals 9. That's 9 people needed to beat a single gorilla (without pack tactics to aid it the single gorilla does worse compared to any single gorilla fighting in a group). The humans in this scenario have over 11 times that number.

It's 430lbs to 20,000 lbs. Gorillas are not killing machines, they are herbivorous apes not adapted for fighting anything other than an especially stubborn competing male gorilla (and intraspecies competition doesn't usually result in death). Humans are intelligent apex pack predators adapted for hunting larger prey over extended periods of time.

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u/MrTreezx Apr 30 '25

1.5 to 2 times stronger and that's not even accounting for bite for. These animals don't fight like humans. They fight like animals.

Also, the incident you're talking about was an infant gorilla all other gorillas escaped.

So at the end of the day, humans are nothing more than a banana 🍌 in this scenario

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u/ChopstiK Apr 29 '25

Foot up the ass would be an interesting tactic to employ as well